| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1075 |
| AUTHOR: | Gerrit Smith (1797–1874) |
| QUOTATION: | Liberty—precious boon of Heaven—is meek and reasonable. She admits, that she belongs to all—to the high and the low; the rich and the poor; the black and the white—and, that she belongs to them all equally…. But true liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Representative GERRIT SMITH, remarks in the House, June 27, 1854, Congressional Globe, vol. 23, Appendix, p. 1016. |
| SUBJECTS: | Liberty |
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